Drawing its methodological inspiration from A History of New Modernism. Czech Literature, 1905–1923 (2010), this study aims to present the development of Czech literature over the course of a single year: 1929. The objective, ...

The present research is focused on the theme of absence, an area of inquiry that might seem dominant in the field of Nabokov Studies. The analysis, which concentrates in particular on the key figures of the novel The Real ...

The present article describes the accentual system of the verbs featuring the thematic vowel -i- in the late 16th-century Chronograph from the E. V. Barsov collection, held in the State Historical Museum in Moscow, catalogue ...

The article is devoted to the discussion of the new issue of Vesti-Kuranty, a large project of the V.V. Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, spanning almost half a century and performed by a whole team of authors. ...

The topic of substantive diminutives in Upper Sorbian has already been written about, notably in the recently published monograph by Małgorzata Milewska-St- awiany Stawiany “Górnołużyckie deminutywa w systemie językowym ...

The aim of this contribution is to compare diminutives in Slovak and German language. The introduction summarizes theoretical information on methods of creation of Slovak and German diminutives and their use. The second ...

Axiology of the soul in the tails of German romantism
My article focuses upon the metamorphoses undergone by the concept of the soul in two key fairy tales, both of which date from the period of late German Romanticism. ...

Axiosphere of the soul. Sadness in the culture of Iran
The subject of this paper is the feeling of sadness in the culture of Iran. It is one of the most important concepts in the Persian tradition. The feeling of sadness ...

The article discusses Anglicisms in selected contemporary dictionaries of Upper and Lower Sorbian. It shows the numerical presence of Anglicisms in the selected dictionaries. It focuses on the information that can be ...

The Introductory article to the second part of the Special Issue dedicated to Anna Wierzbicka’s anniversary focuses on her research in the domain of language and culture interchange. It overviews the fundamental concepts ...

The paper aims to demonstrate that the main contribution of Anna Wierzbicka to linguistics is the idea of semantic decomposition — that is, representing meaning in terms of structurally organized configurations of simpler ...

This introduction to the Special Issue summarises Anna Wierzbicka’s contribution to the linguistic study of meaning. It presents the foundations of the approach known as the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) developed ...